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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag strikes near Panguna in Papua New Guinea


Earthquake location -6.0903S, 154.9215WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 67 kilometers (42 miles) from Panguna in Papua New Guinea. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 154.9215 East, latitude -6.0903 South, depth = 165.18 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 22/04/17 / 2017-04-22 02:00:46 / April 22, 2017 @ 2:00 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 13:00:46 / 1:00 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 165.18 km (103 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: us10008n66. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10008n66.

Nearby country/countries, Papua New Guinea (c. 6 065 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Arawa (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 69 km (43 miles) from Arawa (c. 40 300 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days one hundred and thirty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 67 km WNW of Panguna, Papua New Guinea. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 154.9215° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -6.0903° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 165.18 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 67km WNW of Panguna, Papua New Guinea Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-04-22 02:00:46 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-05-04 03:32:28 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 660 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status reviewed Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami 0 This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG 298 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 3.384 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.54 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 187 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us10008n66 Id of event.
Event Code 10008n66 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10008n66, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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